• UnderpantsWeevil
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    12 hours ago

    Epstein was a major fundraiser for the Democratic party. Trump is the head of the Republican party. And it’s a two party system.

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      7 hours ago

      He specifically fundraised for democrats?

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Bill_Clinton_and_Jeffrey_Epstein

        Epstein’s interactions with Clinton can be traced to the early 1990s. After donating $1,000 to Bill Clinton’s presidential election campaign in 1991, Epstein donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association in 1993 and, accompanied by Maxwell, attended a donors’ reception hosted by President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.

        Clinton and Epstein appeared to be on friendly terms; a photo from 2002 shows them together during a stop in Brunei, and in an interview that year Clinton praised Epstein as a “highly successful financier” and “a committed philanthropist”.

        According to one of his lawyers, Epstein was “part of the original group” that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, a flagship program of Clinton’s philanthropic work. This relationship extended to Maxwell as well – she and Epstein were invited guests at events early in the Clinton Foundation era, and Maxwell was noted as the likely social “glue” connecting Epstein to Clinton’s world.

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          6 hours ago

          Oh, that’s not at all what you implied.

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        But but but they’re closer to not being overwhelmingly evil! They’ll defund ICE once they’ve got a supermajority in the house and senate, the presidency, and patiently wait for the Supreme Court to die.

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      11 hours ago

      “America! Take a good look at your beloved candidates! They’re nothing but hideous space reptiles pedophiles!”

      "It’s true, we are aliens pedophiles, but what are you going to do about it? It’s a two-party system."